Funds for 1835 Hall deserve your vote

I am writing to ask Sterling to support Article 43, maintenance funding for the 1835 Town Hall Committee. This sum has been voted for the past nine or so years, and we have taken the facility from a deteriorating hall filled with junk to a meeting place the townspeople can freely use with pride. There are presently about 1,000 uses of the meeting space annually, and the Garden club, Boy Scouts, and Girl Scouts have given generously of their time and hard work to help make it so.

The facilities manager has performed numerous inspections and permit processes, but little of the needed repair and restorative work has been accomplished outside the 1835 Committee’s work and funding. If the maintenance funding is not voted, the committee will have only the use fees to spend on the building, and that would be inadequate to maintain and advance the condition of this remarkable old building. Though the maintenance Article 43 has been moved to the latter part of the meeting, I hope you will stay to vote for the upkeep and improvement of the 1835 Town Hall. Vern GawChair, 1835 Town Hall Committee